I’m looking forward to UFC 174, that’s a pretty good card, but these other events are SO watered down, I barley recognize most of the names of most of the fighters,…and I consider myself a pretty die-hard MMA fan.

UFC FIGHT NIGHT HENDERSON VS. KHABILOV looks pretty watchable, but not worth be going out to a sports bar to watch. A show like that should be on FOX/free TV.

UFC 175 I’m planning on watching, but with all the events they are presenting, (3 out of 7), that is not impressive…

I’m not a complainer, just noting that promoting so many sub-par events is more damaging then anything else.

How can you guys complain about the UFC? Dana White is super smart and knows what he is doing. He would never water down his product to the point that his core fan base stopped caring about the events.

Take the last Fox Sports 1 show. It got an amazing 609,000 viewers. That is like totally awesome. The UFC is more popular then both International Football and American Football combined.

And so far in June, the UFC has 42 scheduled fights. MOAR UFC!! MOAR UFC!! MOAR UFC!! This is the best time to be a MMA fan in the history of the galaxy.

The PPV still wouldn’t be great, but that is mostly because the month isn’t filled with great fights. But the prelim card would be filled with that the prelim card should be filled with…. Which is good prospect fights. And the FN card would be solid from top to bottom. Nothing great but something worth sitting down to watch and see some solid contenders.

Arlovski Shaub, boy what a stinker.
Arlovski is now in the “over 11 ufc wins at HW club” along with Mir at 14 Kongo at 11. Notably absent from the ufcs list of winningest HW fighters is Couture with 12 wins at HW.

Other than some good asian action 174 was a total “nothing to see here move along” snoozefest. 4 boring decisions and 1 injury stopage…Tyron “heavy bag” Woodley, Ryan “blanket” Bader mighty mouse and the rest aren’t worth the PPV money imo.
Remember when dana was saying a Diaz Silva fight would never happen… its ridiculous or some such? I wonder if he’ll still try and low ball nick with that BIG fight.

But Woodley needs a new corner man. after the first round, the only thing they should have been telling him is “don’t back up, move sideways, use your angles!” And after the second round the should have been yelling that to him, saying “don’t worry about getting takedowns, worry about not letting take you apart with his striking”. It was three rounds of him standing in front of Rory letting him use him as a heavybag. Woodley has the talent & potential, he just is not ready for a shot at the title.

And I’m NOT saying Rory didn’t look great, he did: just that Tyron did just as much to lose as Rory did to dominate that fight.